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posted: *3 july 2021*
... it is noted that Sigurd, patriach of House Thrashedflagon and Vicedwarf of the Magma Engineers of the Middle Downs, took specific steps to prevent the Miner's Guild from gaining support in the quorums of the Seventh Hall. From what records survive, it is apparent that the shrinking allotment of supplies to the Seventh Hall's miners, carpenters and foremen was tied to Sigurd's campaigning.
It lends to reason that fears of the adamantium veins being too thin in the Seventh Hall to warrant digs without significant risk were a driving factor. Most periodical sources towards some combination of House Thrashedflagon's rapidly shrinking wealth; an increase of dark magecraft throughout the Upper and Middle Downs regions; or the catastrophic release of Baelkinoz the Unshackled from the undercrofts of Temple Daerin, as motivators for a near-total stoppage of adamantium prospecting in the Middle Downs' claims.
Few recovered documents, however, give primary acknowledgement to these issues directly. Oral tradition of the remaining Thrashedflagon representatives, abroad during years 73-74 of the Days of Kolne, state that Sigurd led the charge during the early hours of the breach, and held the line at the front gate until the end. Other traditions, including the histories of the Graniteknuckles clan, directly refute this claim. Such conflicts of verbal tradition are commonplace among rival dwarven family structures within single fortresses or regions...
~ excerpts from *On the History of the Middle Downs: Savagery, Stone, and Satrapy in the Days of Kolne*; by Alaefin Toyaemaru, Archivist of Greenleaf Convent